Alessandro Volta Quotes

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

Alessandro Volta

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• Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.

  

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• For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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• Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  

  Gary L. Francione
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• I record all night and sleep all day.

  

  Damian Marley
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• I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Success
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• I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
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• Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Believe
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• So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

  

  Andy Grove
  • World
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  • Turbulent

• The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Time
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• Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
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• I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Men
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• The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Hope
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• There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

  

  Norwood Russell Hanson
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• Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Art
  • Study
  • Body

• From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any 'new force' or what not, directing the behaviour of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Laws
  • Physics
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• What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

  

  Alessandro Volta
  • Physics
  • Measures
  • Reduced